Webster County’s unemployment rate for June increased five-tenths of a percentage point to 6.1%, according to figures released by the Mississippi Department of Employment Security.
The county’s jobless rate was 5.6% (revised) in May and 5.9% in June 2018.
MDES statistics from 1990 forward show the county’s highest unemployment rate for June came in 2002, when it reached 18.7%. The lowest rate for that period was in 1998, when it dropped to 5.5%.
The number of unemployed Webster Countians in June increased by 20 to 240. The labor force, which is made up of everyone who has a job or is looking for one, decreased by 30 to 3,920.
The state’s non-seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was 6% in June while the national average, also unadjusted, was 3.8%. June jobless rates in adjoining counties: Calhoun, 5.5%; Chickasaw, 6.1%; Choctaw, 5.4%; Clay, 8.3%; Grenada, 5.6%; Montgomery, 6.4%; and Oktibbeha, 7.1%.
